Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all, I have completed a rough edit of the first 5 days of my last trip to China. Some observations on equipment- I took a D100 with the AF-S Zoom-Nikkor ED 12-24mm f/4G IF DX (try saying that fast :-), a Canon G6, and a 35mm F/2 AF Nikkor. I used them all extensively. I sorely missed having my 24-120 VR lens. Because it was a group tour, I spent a lot of time grabbing shots from moving platforms. The longer reach and VR would have been very useful. The 12-24 was not as useful as I expected. I was thinking "Japan" with small, tight spaces. I found a country whose scale makes the USA feel cramped. As an exercise in self control (not to mention in space conservation) I shot with the D100 in NEF compressed mode almost all the time. This allows one to take four pictures rapidly, but then, once the buffer has filled, there is a 35 second wait between shots. When I was expecting fast changing action, I simply switched to uncompressed mode. I figured that a picture every 35 seconds for 3 1/2 weeks would probably be adequate :-) The Epson P-2000 "Multimedia Storage Viewer" was extraordinarily useful. Apart from functioning flawlessly as an image bank, it also entertained me with a book (So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, written a narrated by Douglas Adams) on the long plane ride. Its viewer was good enough to enable me to spot a dirty blob on the D100 LCD the same day it appeared. I cleaned it immediately, saving a lot of retouching when I returned. On the topic of the pictures -- I found it very hard to select a set that represented both what I would display as "good photographs" and that would function as a photo record of the trip. I compromised, and probably missed both objectives. Any way, here are the first pics: http://Clive.smugmug.com/share/exvLMu292U6LE As always, comments welcomed. (LUGgers - I know it is off topic -- but I did at least think of taking my M6) -- Clive Blog: http://www.clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html Photos: http://clive.smugmug.com/ Web: http://www.clive.moss.net